copepoda calanus fine art print ernst haeckel Size:30×40 cm He started studying in Yehuda

He started studying in Yehuda Pen's art school at Vitebsk when he was just eleven years old

which became among the best-known images of the period

It sits beautifully alongside Haeckel's radiolarian and hydroid plates

Their hanging

and the antics of puppetry (Ranson kept a puppet theater in his studio)

copepoda calanus fine art print ernst haeckel Size:30×40 cm He started studying in YehudaThis is the hidden world of the plankton, magnified into art. Copepods the minuscule crustaceans that drift in their billions through the world's oceans are usually invisible to the naked eye, but Ernst Haeckel drew them here as translucent, long antennaed jewels, each one a tiny marvel of engineering set against a dark, deep water background. The plate comes from Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature), Haeckel's defining series of 100